PoisonAlchemist: Man Muro, you boost my confidence and then you just go crush it with a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Pariah: Don't tell him things like that, if his head gets any bigger he'll float off like a weather ballon :p

Yet another research, but one that has really impressed me. I have always wondered what is yawning good for, and especially how can it be so contagious. This hypothesis here sounds really good:

Yawning is a way for the body to cool the brain, when other systems in the body are not doing enough. The researchers found that people yawned more often in situations in which their brains were likely to be warmer, and less when they had cool heads.

"A cooler brain, Gallup said, is a clearer brain.

So yawning actually appears to be a way to stay more alert. And contagious yawning, he said, may have evolved to help groups remain vigilant against danger."

PoisonAlchemist: Man Muro, you boost my confidence and then you just go crush it with a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Pariah: Don't tell him things like that, if his head gets any bigger he'll float off like a weather ballon :p

In a North Texas park is a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail.

"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."

Entomologists theorized it may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another. Some claimed it could be a 'once-in-a-lifetime event', others pointed out that similar reports are heard every couple of years.

Actually, webs of a large size like that aren't too unusual. Over in Kansas City ('bout 30 minutes from here), there're some trees that have webs covering huge swaths of them. Freaked me out when I saw'em.

A little tale with some science intermixed, it really says that some elements are and will be rare; and even nuclear fusion may not be able to produce them. So yes, there will be precious materials to find and trade with in spacey settings.

One John Kazius has been working on an alternative cure for cancer with a radio-frequency generator, he was notified of condensation in his test tube, and suggested to try to desalinate water. After playing with it for a few days, he was able to ignite the escaping gas. It looks to be an authentic source of hydrogen and oxygen.

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- now, even if it is science fair/chem class material without a practical commercial use, it still looks cool, and is an intriguing discovery - if this is more effective (or cheaper) than common electrolysis, then it will be darn useful - if actually more energy comes out of this thing actually than is required to run it... well, then this may be a very serious breakthrough. Pity those *censored* journalists don't ask that question.

Cool. It was also fun to read all the pessimists in the thread below the (short) vid. Wherever there is a pioneer, there is also a horde of people telling him it can't be done. The best thing about those people is to DO it, and then taunt them for eternity.